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Heroine Shikkaku  
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Description
This could be any girl. Imagine being a heroine of a love story. Hatori also believed that one day she would get married to her childhood friend, Rita.

But that's not how the world works! This is a hilarious comedy that honestly paints a painful unrequited love story of this young girl!

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
ヒロイン失格
女主失格
헤로인 실격
Failure of a Heroine
No Longer Heroine

Groups Scanlating
Anime-tion Scanlation
Autumn Scans
Girls' Generation Scanlations

Latest Release(s)
v.5 c.19 by Autumn Scans (31d ago)
v.5 c.18 by Autumn Scans (42d ago)
v.5 c.17 by Autumn Scans (49d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
9 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

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Forum
1 topics, 8 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (214 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.95 / 10.0
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Last Updated
May 20th 2013, 3:11pm PST

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Genre
Comedy  Drama  Romance  School Life  Shoujo 
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Author(s)
KODA Momoko

Artist(s)
KODA Momoko

Year
2010

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Betsuma (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

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Monthly Pos #794 decreased(-350)
3 Month Pos #204 increased(+26)
6 Month Pos #236 increased(+137)

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 I hope Hatori does NOT end up with Rita   
Rating: N/A
by WShin
September 1st, 2012, 3:30pm
I feel like Rita is pretty much using her, well not even using, more like he won't ever like her the way Hatori likes him.

I want Hatori in the end to realize that she doesn't need Rita to be happy and maybe hook up with Kousuke (if she has to...I'd prefer if she didn't pair up with anyone). Her friend doesn't seem interested in anyone, either, so why does she need to get a bf?

Edit: This story would be AWESOME if Chapter 16 were the last chapter, but it's not. Too bad (I've read the ending spoilers)...

... Last updated on March 23rd, 2013, 8:29pm
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 Original, some downfalls   
Rating: 8.5 / 10.0
by ChildofSecrets
December 4th, 2012, 12:13am
This story has achieved levels of originality, but its price is beginning to show.

I agree, the characters are worsening the more we see their personalities. I don't deny that. Still, I take most of it as successful parodying. I doubt the mangaka ever had the intention to showcase ideal heros/heroines and love interests alike. If it were to be flowery shoujo idealism or even realistic, it wouldn't be original as it is (for better or for worse). Hatori is probably the only main shoujo character I've seen that's a selfish hard-to-relate antagonist.

Though I don't like the distasteful personalities of Rita, Adachi or Hatori, I'm glad to see a different light shed on fictional characters in common context - light rarely shown, if not warped to make us like and dislike certain characters more.

Depending on your perspective - it's either a parody or a crapheap of disappointing MCs. I'd say the former.

I'm still questioning how things will end up but in all, will read it with my full attention to the end.

... Last updated on May 18th, 2013, 7:29pm
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 Oh, Hatori...   
Rating: N/A
by flowinmyboat
November 10th, 2012, 8:49pm
I really liked this series at first. Hatori's facial expressions were really funny and I liked how she was slightly self-aware. I could really relate to Hatori; every girl has that mean-out-to-get-you side and feels like their the best match for their crush especially in high-school. I was hoping it'd be more about how she gets past the fact she's not his heroine anymore and internally struggles with moving on to finding a new love...

But then, she confessed. Cue the love-triangle and tears. Rita went from being tolerable to being a total sleaze-bag. This manga would improve a lot if Hatori falls out of love with Rita and discovers what a jerk he is. She gets more and more pathetic as the story goes on, and become less and less relatable.
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 Started out as agreat comedy...   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by Criminal Intent
March 30th, 2011, 6:05pm
, but as of late it's become a tiresome melodrama.

Like the poster before me stated, this series is actually about the antagonist of typical shoujo romance stories. Hatori is popular, pretty, and the classic "childhood friend". She sees her and Rita's relationship as a shoujo love story, but the problem is it's not that kind of story. Enter Adachi, the plain, dull, "Mary Sue", and she is the archetypal "heroine" in every way.

This series is pretty funny, Hatori's facial expressions are priceless, and she constantly rejects rejects actual reality and injects her own fictional one. Her best friend (Nakajima) is the standard "voice of reason", but it works out well against Hatori's quixotic behavior. It pokes fun at classic genre cliches and even other series (most notably Strobe Edge).

The series does have it's drawbacks though. It constantly loses focus and HAtori's unwillingness to change has become tiresome as of late. Rita's the same way. I like "Kaki P" (Kousuke), he's like the voice of the readers, he points out the glaring motivations behind every character and it seems the Hatori likes him at least on the most basic level.

Still, this manga is young so there's still a lot of story ahead.
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 Looove it.   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by aetherwyn
January 5th, 2012, 4:24pm
The first thing that really made me start loving this manga was the fact that Hatori is not your average shoujo heroine. She's "the other woman," basically. But instead of a Strobe-Edge-other-woman premise, where the heroine's still a sweetheart... Hatori is the mean, snooty, stuck up girl that always picks on the main character. Except it's HER story.

And, because it humanizes that stereotype of the mean girl bully, this manga is already awesome. But everything else about it is good, too; the art, the realism (Hatori looks like a wreck when she cries, for instance, as opposed to having big bubbly tears streaming down her face prettily), the other characters, the philosophical statements... it's really a good one. I especially love that I can't tell who Hatori's going to end up with, at least so far on Chapter 8.

It's brilliant.
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 Not that typical shoujo   
Rating: N/A
by shinorei
July 11th, 2012, 9:56am
Maybe I haven't read enough shoujo like this before... but the first few chapters made me thought I had the story all figured out, that the hero will eventually fall for the heroine who waits for him. Then again... when I went on and read the summaries for the manga up till chapter 21 - it was a rather unexpected turn out..
Spoiler (mouse over to view)
the heroine's friend, Nakajima is now also kinda involved in this love polygon, probably kicking Adachi out of the picture. Hatori's started dating Kousuke and is visibly in love with him although Rita recently came clean with his feelings.. he actually realised he liked her when she confessed in the first few chapters.


Basically it's totally unexpected and I am really anticipating how the author wraps this up - hopefully not too ugly, and I urge you guys to read on if you think this looks cliché, as it definitely isn't and I hope there will be more scanlations in the future!!
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 Good so far..   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by Pinky Poison
March 5th, 2012, 9:27am
Hatori is not like your typical shoujo main girl character. She's mean, but that's what makes this story realistic. And I like her personality, she's very honest to her feelings, also I can relate to her as much. When I read this series, I was all like "Oh she's truly like me!" so I sympathize with her, and I understand why she acts that way. Since she's just a teen, it's normal for her to be jealous, get mad when girls near the guy you like and feel anxious when he starts liking someone else.
The art is nice, it comes to my liking, though I don't like all the characters. Well, I like Kousuke, who appears in this story as a third person. He's nice, considerate, and also a hottie.. -laughs- I think he's the right one for her. I support him instead of Rita. Rita is the kind of guy that only feels the importance when someone takes his precious things away. Shoujos are always all like "only first love will bloom". But no, in this series, I'm rooting for the other guy! REALLY. If Koda-sensei chooses Rita instead of Kousuke, I will immediately drop this series right away! -_-
I give this a 8 because I have this bad feeling that the main girl is gonna be hooked up with Rita.. Agh.

... Last updated on July 7th, 2012, 2:05am
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 Total train wreak   
Rating: N/A
by 1122shadows
January 10th, 2012, 5:33pm
As much as I like Hatori, she's a total train wreak. To say that Hatori is a bully, stuck up or a villian would be overdoing it. She's not confident, prideful or mean but rather delusional, insecure and naive. Loving Rita who has a girlfriend (Adachi) just makes this one really bad mess because you feel her pain and hopelessness throughout the story. Rita is totally unreceptive of her love and his girlfriend is such a goody-two-shoes to the point of nausea. While Hatori's behavior towards her is more realistic than friction. As for Rita, you'll probably end up despising him.The only spark of hope in this story might be that Hatori may wake up and smell the coffee. On the other hand, for those who absolutely love stories where the protagonist is redundantly kicked in the teeth ( i.e unrequite love, played with and two-timed) this would be an olympian contender, so eat your heart out.

... Last updated on January 11th, 2012, 5:32am
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 Special enough to make it interesting   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by Strobe
July 13th, 2012, 12:47pm
I think this manga is showing us a more in-depth of a side-character in a manga. Hatori's new girlfriend represent the usual main character - shy, not so pretty or special. Hatori is the mean, out-to-get the heroine rival who's also childhood freind with the hero, who is a bad boy. Seems familiar? I think this kind of plot makes it unique and worth reading since it's so different. this is probably what you're either gonna love or hate. The art is okay which is a plot and the scans are well done. Hopefully there will be more.
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 Yeah..   
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by slykid
April 25th, 2012, 3:34pm
This is a manga where a plain girl falls in love with a guy and another girl that's been bestfriends with the guy secretly loves him, but no matter what she does, she always loses to the plain girl.This manga is exactly that but for once its from the jealous bestfriends point of view smile I like it .

... Last updated on April 26th, 2012, 1:46pm
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